Style Dignity Title

Famous quotes containing the words style, dignity and/or title:

    “Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it. He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “And Reason kens he herits in
    A haunted house. Tenants unknown
    Assert their squalid lease of sin
    With earlier title than his own.”
    —Robert Bridges (1844–1930)